Wednesday 11 March 2015

They say writers
are full of words,
that we write
to make room
inside of us.

I say we write
because this
is our hunger.
 
Pavana
 
 


Monday 2 March 2015

"It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold:  when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade."

 -  Charles Dickens 
 
 

Thursday 12 February 2015

Nothing.
Everything.
Anything.
Something.
If you have nothing, then you have everything, because you have the freedom to do anything, without the fear of losing something.
 
- Jarod Kintz
 
 
 


Wednesday 11 February 2015

"In a way Winter is the real Spring - the time when the inner things happen, the resurgence of nature."

 -  Edna O'Brien
 
 
 


Tuesday 10 February 2015

Will I be something?
Am I something?
And the answer comes:
You already are.
You always were.
And you still have time to be.
Anis Mojgani
 
 
 


Saturday 7 February 2015

"February, when the days of winter seem endless and no amount of wistful recollecting can bring back any air of summer."

 -  Shirley Jackson, Raising Demons
 
 



Thursday 5 February 2015

The one thing you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and dance and build and play and dance and live as only you can.
Neil Gaiman
 
 



Wednesday 4 February 2015

"Surely as cometh the Winter, I know
There are Spring violets under the snow."

 -  R. H. Newell
 
 
 

 

Sunday 25 January 2015

Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on. 
 
Louis L’Amour
 
 
The right time is always now. The other possibilities are taken or not yet arrived.
 
Carolyn McCool
 
 

Monday 19 January 2015

"Winter dawn is the color of metal,
The trees stiffen into place like burnt nerves."
-  Sylvia Plath, Waking in Winter
 
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"Pale January lay
In its cradle day by day
Dead or living, hard to say."
-  Alfred Austin, Primroses
 
 
 

Friday 16 January 2015

"The shortest day has passed, and whatever nastiness of weather we may look forward to in January and February, at least we notice that the days are getting longer.  Minute by minute they lengthen out.  It takes some weeks before we become aware of the change.  It is imperceptible even as the growth of a child, as you watch it day by day, until the moment comes when with a start of delighted surprise we realize that we can stay out of doors in a twilight lasting for another quarter of a precious hour."

 -  Vita Sackville-West
 
 
“Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.”

– Martin Luther King, Jr
 
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“The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.”

 – Samuel Johnson
 
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